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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Things That Make Me Snarf - The WTF Blanket

You've probably already seen this, but it's too good to pass up. (Insert obligatory warning about language--it's bleeped but is still PG-13 on the Carrie scale.)

Strangely enough, this commercial kind of makes me want to buy one of those blankets. Not to use it. Just to say that I have one.

Okay, so there's something that has been puzzling me. I am apparently a HUGE hit in Turkey. (I know someone somewhere now has the intense urge to gobble, and I feel compelled to say to you: Not WITH turkeys, you idiot, IN Turkey. As in the country.) I am not sure exactly what I've said that appeals to the Turkish audience. Is Turkey the secret heart of the merpire revolution? Do Turkish people have an intense love for all that is sparkly? Is Richard Simmons the International Spokesperson of Turkey!?!

Turkey. It does a body good. Kind of like milk, but different.

Richard, my darling. We're talking about Turkey the country, not turkey the food.

Oh. Well, I still like Turkey. The Hittites, you know. And fezes! Fezesese? What the heck is the plural of fez? Anyway, I could totally be their spokesperson.

But... but... you're MY spokesperson. And I fully agree that Turkey rocks the casbah. Not only does it seem like a beautiful country, but it also inspired that song by They Might Be Giants. And really, it doesn't get much better than THAT. But please, Richard. Please don't go.

That's the not the best part of the WTF blanket. You can get them in different patterns. For instance, we sell OSU WTF blankets where I work. Yep. Sleeved blankets displaying your favorite sports team. OH! Good publicity idea: get a WTF blanket with your book's picture all over it, then wear it all the time so people have to ask about it. Because they will. Oh, they will.

This was too funny! Okay, so I checked out your book since you mentioned you signed with Wendy, and last week when I was talking to her she was telling me about your book! As soon as I saw the title, I knew! It sounds fabulous!

(I can't view that blanket video...I'm surrounded by students and don't dare. But I will when I get home.)

(I've hit your site a few times -- am I your big Turkish fan?) Almost a year before we came here, I did a post about donating my hair to Locks of Love, with photographs of before and after. I got a ton of hits from Turkey: apparently a bunch of hair fetishists found my middle-aged self just irresistable and I kept finding these awful things on my site meter, like "lady SCoTland with long haIR" and "woman hair love". You haven't posted anything about hair, have you...? :)

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I like writing books, playing games, fighting evil, and cooking (everyone's got to have hobbies). My YA zombie comedy, BAD TASTE IN BOYS, is available from Delacorte Press right now! The next Kate Grable adventure, BAD HAIR DAY, will be available November 2012. Which is la awesome.